Summary
"Twin Parts" (2004, oil on canvas) is an intimate portrait, both amusing and spooky, of a kind of prehistoric science fiction featuring a smeary figure rummaging through possible spare body parts stored on a shelf that happens to sit in the jungle, a fleshy Eden of genetic interchangeability and also perhaps an unintended metaphor of the artist?s painting process. [Dana Schutz] relies largely on a few simple techniques--long blocky paint strokes, short jabs and flat, chunky washes--interchanging them ingeniously to create infinite, wholly different scenes throughout her imagined worlds, alternately using texture and color as much as form to delineate specific objects. In her painting"Surgery" (2004, oil on canvas, pictured) seven or eight little girls crowd around another who is splayed out on a sunny day?s picnic cloth, the victim of an unfortunate, but intense and clearly educational, game of Operation as her friends dig into her brain and her torso. The subject of the surgery is painted in long stringy strokes, textured entirely differently from anything else in the painting; her body is not only being examined and dismembered by her playmates, but is altogether phasing out of existence. Like the many layers of paint on each of her works, Schutz works with many layers of meaning, interpretation, possibility and reference, impossibly balancing humor and horror, gravitas and perversity.
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